Chapter 29She wore the same dress her mother had on the night she met Emperor Athanasios.
The blue chiffon glowed with the color of the sea at high noon, the back open to the waist and gathers at the shoulders. In the front, the neckline dropped to the base of her sternum, the mountains on either side forming a rift valley hinting at the delights to be found there. A slim belt in sky-blue sequins trimmed the waist, and the material dropped to the floor, slit up the sides to mid-thigh, edged with a strip of azure lace. Matching heels in sequined straps winked from beneath the hem.
Around her neck she wore a single string of aquamarine and lapis lazuli, and from each ear dangled a two-inch trail of the same, a matching bracelet at one wrist. The jewelry was the same as her mother had worn,
